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Show IGOMPUUHS OF POLIGEAGTION There was filed with the etate In-lustrjal In-lustrjal commisaion today a letter from I-Yd Kdgingtnn appealing to tin commission for help in securing work whi.-h he dec lares he Is unable to get because of interfere line upon the part of the police authorities who have advNcd. the letter alb JW, JM O- I pl from whom h ini:ht obtain work not to employ him. The letter Is as follows: "I wish to jtv the following facts before your honorable body as a complaint com-plaint agatn.t Joseph K. H.irbidae. chbf of the Salt lke police denart-tnent. denart-tnent. to substanf late my cbares that ho will not permit me to e;trn my living In the performance of work for wVch I am fitted, and the only work I am able t. obtain at this t imn Hi rough the iasuanct of nnliisl orders and threats agnnst employr.H who offer me work. ASKED TO RESIGN. "On March T last I wan aked to resign as taxi driver for Tony Arnold, manager of n duly regulated txi service with a stand at N'n. 10 Ka-t Second Sui'h street. Salt I,ako City, after being informed ' my etnployer !!iaf Mr. Uurbidge had threatened to recall Ms stand, permit and license n operate a taxi rcrvko unless I was discharced. "1 common Ira ted with Mr. P.ur-Mdge P.ur-Mdge and wis informed by him that T wns a "confessed hootlei.-pr" Hnl for this reason could not drive a tixt-can tixt-can In Salt IJtke City, t declare this statement to he oim uttered by M r. lVurhldge with mullee and In a vengeful venge-ful spirit for charges brought hy ine against two of hie officers with graies of city detective last September ifter thev had conflscn ted an automobile containing bp vera I caes of whisky and did not make proper fltsposlt Ion or entry of their rapture undr the prohibition laws. I am at this time hri'l always have hen prepared to r fute the ebarges ilm I am "a, mn- f ssed hoot leggr. ' "Since I was deprived of the privilege priv-ilege of working for Mr. Arnold I h;ie been employed bv the taxicsb firm of Ttuse and Webh. opprHttntr Iti Halt IjiUo t'lty nt a tttand in front of the Kenyon hotel, but mt with a slm'lar condition brought about through orders Issued bv or of which Mr. Itiirhldgc has knowledge of being Issued. GOOD RECORD. "I am n railroad swtiehman an1 engine en-gine foreman by profcss.n ui.l until Vovrmber -1 . 1 !2 j , was ( einplo ed bv the t)tlen l'nM Hallway Terminal eompany. On tin- above dnto left thn company with witisfactory service records, on account of reduction in forces. I am a native of th state and have been a nwident of Tark city. Salt Iike City and Ogdr-n for more than twenty -five years. Because of the at'and taken by Mr. Hurhtdge I have been out of steady employment employ-ment which I could have otherwise had since March f last. I hereby appeal for nn Investigation of the facts l:i the oartA, and If you find it Justifiable, relief from such a altn-a altn-a lion through your dectsinh." (Signed i Fred Kdglngton. Chester hotel, Kr South Statf sirert. Tresident TV A Thatcher of the comrnleslon haH submitted rho letter to the attorney gene'vU fr hia opinion regarding th case - |